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Posts filed under Attendance

March 3, 2015

The first Major Arena Soccer League season is over and the playoffs have begun. Actually, the playoffs began before the season ended, which is just another reason why this is the worst league ever. But here are the (nearly final, only seven data points missing, one of which we’re never going to get) attendance numbers… (read more)

February 19, 2015

The first Major Arena Soccer League season has just over a week to run, and here’s the latest look at its attendance figures (with 8 games not reported): Team G Total Average Median High Low Baltimore 8 50,105 6,263 6,426 7,812 4,911 Rochester 8 50,061 6,258 6,025 8,214 5,004 St. Louis 9 54,050 6,006 6,486… (read more)

February 11, 2015

When Major League Soccer went through its MLS NEXT re-branding last September, I thought it was both the nadir of soccer design and the zenith of soccer pretentiousness. Apparently not. (Warning: video and audio launch automatically, which I hate on any website. If you do, too, beware.) United Soccer Leagues unveiled the new look for… (read more)

February 4, 2015

I should probably write something soccer-related, as most of you are used to that and probably don’t care about me replaying the 1932 baseball season with a card-and-dice game. Fair enough. As one of only a handful of American indoor soccer historians, I feel confident and justified in saying that the new Major Arena Soccer… (read more)

December 30, 2014

That’s as in “going down the tubes,” which one Major Arena Soccer League team has already done and others seem poised to. In this final check of attendance for calendar year 2014, we see things aren’t going well in a lot of markets in the only pro indoor soccer league left. Team G Total Average… (read more)

December 15, 2014

Now that everyone in the new Major Arena Soccer League has played at least one home game, we can take a look at where the 23-team circuit’s teams stand in terms of announced attendance. Here are the numbers through last night: Team G Total Average Median High Low Rochester 2 14,033 7,017 7,017 8,214 5,819… (read more)

November 15, 2014

The Baltimore Blast shut out the Detroit Waza last night, 26-0, in a Major Arena Soccer League game. (Detroit was delayed getting to the arena, as their bus broke down, which can happen when you leave the day of the game and try to drive 500+ miles.) In the high-scoring world of indoor/arena soccer, shutouts… (read more)

November 9, 2014

November 8, 2014

The ten year experiment that was Chivas USA is no more, and a new Los Angeles franchise in Major League Soccer will replace the erstwhile Goats in 2017. Failure or not, depending on who’s doing the remembering, Chivas USA wasn’t going to be a help to anyone going forward, and with a well-financed ownership group… (read more)

November 2, 2014

We are truly living in a golden age for professional outdoor soccer in this country. All three men’s professional levels of the game set new average attendance records this season, with Major League Soccer drawing 19,149 a game, USL Pro breaking the 3,000-a-game mark and now, the North American Soccer League setting a new record… (read more)